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On a Collision Course - The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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On a Collision Course - The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines
Japanese migration to the United States from an international and
deeply historical perspective. A prominent figure in the field of
Japanese migration studies, Sakata argued the importance of using
resources from both sides of the Pacific and taking a holistic view
that incorporated US-Japanese diplomatic relationships, the mass
media, the American view of Asian populations, and Japan's
self-image as a modern, westernized nation. In his first essay,
Sakata provides an overview of resources and warns against their
gaps and biases: many have been lost or intentionally destroyed in
circumstances including the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires
and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II;
those that remain may reflect culturally based inaccuracies. In the
other essays, Sakata examines Japanese migration through a
multifaceted lens, incorporating an understanding of immigration,
labor, working conditions, diplomatic relationships, and the
effects of war and mass media. He further emphasizes the
distinctions between the dekasegi period, when Japanese crossed the
Pacific for work with the intention of returning home, the
transition period, and the imin period, when they became permanent
residents. He also discusses the self-image among Japanese as
distinct from the Chinese, more westernized and able to assimilate
- a distinction lost on Americans, who tended to lump the Asian
groups together, both in treatment and under the law. Japan's Meiji
era brought the opening of Japanese ports to Western nations and
Japan's eventual overseas expansion. This translated volume of
Sakata's well-researched work brings a transnational perspective to
this critical chapter of early Japanese American history.
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